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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 21, 2024

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US President Joe Biden greets guests after speaking at a reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 20, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)

US wants Israel to 'take out Sinwar, other Hamas butchers'

Backing Israel’s fight against Hamas, Biden says Gaza campaign ‘is not genocide’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

At White House event attended by families of some hostages, US president stresses he’ll give Israel everything it needs to defend itself, vows unrelenting effort to free hostages

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Backing settlement, Ben Gvir says he’d be ‘very happy to live in Gaza’ after the war

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (third from left) and senior defense officials meet in Tel Aviv with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (second from right), May 20, 2024 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister and IDF chief lay out Rafah evacuation plan to senior Biden aide

By Lazar Berman

Israeli troops operate in eastern Rafah in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 21: Blinken suggests Arab countries to play instrumental role in post-war Gaza

After White House complains, Israel backtracks on seizing AP equipment * Fearing pilgrims will flock to warzone, IDF declares Mount Meron closed military area ahead of Lag B’Omer

8:58 pm

Rocket warning sirens sound in northern Israel after false alarm
8:47 pm

Biden on Trump's 'unified Reich' post: 'This is Hitler's language, not America's'
8:27 pm

Fearing pilgrims will flock to warzone, IDF declares Mount Meron closed military area ahead of Lag B'Omer

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on the southern border with the Gaza Strip, May 15, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

France backs court's 'fight against impunity'

Gallant blasts ICC’s Khan for ‘despicable’ Israel-Hamas parallel in warrant bid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense minister says prosecutor’s decision to seek arrests of Israeli leaders is an attempt to deny Israel the right to defend itself and secure the release of the hostages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address on May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Netanyahu: ‘Absurd’ ICC bid to arrest Israeli leaders is ‘the new antisemitism’

By Lazar Berman

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar (left) speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023 (Mohammed Abed / AFP); Ismail Haniyeh (center), the Qatar-based leader of Hamas, delivers a televised speech on May 15, 2024. (X/Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law); Mohammed Deif (right) (X/Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas slams ICC for seeking arrest of its leaders alongside Netanyahu, Gallant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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US President Joe Biden (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Biden calls ICC prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrant for Netanyahu ‘outrageous’

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Blinken says ‘shameful’ move jeopardizes truce talks; GOP senator, House speaker suggest ‘damning sanctions against ICC’; South Africa, Bernie Sanders and Belgium praise Hague

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Left) at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 21, Day 228: Same-same? ICC prosecutor equates Israeli & Hamas leaders

FILE: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Outcry in Israel as ICC prosecutor seeks warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

Analysis

Legal earthquake: ICC charges against Netanyahu would be unprecedented in court’s history

Court may take weeks or months to approve warrants. Gravest charges of crimes against humanity relate to humanitarian crisis in Gaza, alleged use of starvation as tool of war

Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (Courtesy: ICC)

Karim Khan's statementFull text of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan’s application for arrest warrants

IDF soldiers operate in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip in a photo cleared for publication on May 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel moves to more limited Rafah assault plan, to which US will not object – report

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Washington Post analyst says plan to send two divisions into south Gaza city has been shelved, unnamed Israeli defense officials have agreed on how ‘day after’ will look

A picture shows a view of a deserted displacement camp area east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2024. (AFP)

IDF estimates 950,000 Gazans have evacuated from Rafah amid offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

This satellite photo taken by Planet Labs PBC shows an area near the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah, Gaza, May 5, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show Rafah emptying as Israeli forces move in on southern Gaza city

By AP and ToI Staff

Interview

Cathryn J. Prince

Retiring early due to antisemitism, a professor paints a dire picture of US academia

Barbara J. Risman felt that the atmosphere among University of Illinois faculty after October 7 was too much for her to bear as a Jew. Her colleagues secretly tell her she’s right

Prof. Barbara Risman (Courtesy)

Anti-Israel students protest at an encampment on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 28, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP)

Police break up University of Michigan encampment; New School to hold divestment vote

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters confront police during a Nakba Day rally and march on May 18, 2024 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt/ Getty Images/ AFP)

NYC mayor defends police after violent clashes at pro-Palestinian Brooklyn rally

By AP and ToI Staff

An Israeli army bulldozer advances through a deserted street during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 21, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Palestinians say 7 killed, 9 wounded as IDF launches counter-terror op in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian media says doctor, teacher, student among the dead; military says soldiers shot gunmen, demolished home of terrorist

The Ayatollah of execution: My memories of Ebrahim Raisi

He became president in a sham election and was being groomed as the Islamic Republic’s next Supreme Leader. I won’t miss him

A battle of wits in the House Oversight Committee

Once respected, the US Congress has descended into a boorish, name-calling embarrassment and we all share some of the blame

IDF says Hezbollah’s coastal rocket commander killed in drone strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Qassem Saqlawi, targeted near Tyre in south Lebanon, carried out many attacks on Israel amid war; three drones from Iraq, Syria downed by fighter jets, warship

Qassem Saqlawi, a top Hezbollah rocket commander killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, May 20, 2024. (Hezbollah media office)

Screen capture from video of the UN Security Council observing a minute of silence over the death in a helicopter crash of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, May 20, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel fumes as UN’s Security Council, atomic agency mark death of Iran’s Raisi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Both UN entities hold a minute of silence for Iranian president; Israel’s envoy pans gesture to ‘mass murderer’ as akin to show of honor to commemorate Hitler’s death

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Virginia Mayo)

US offers condolences over Iran chopper crash, blasts Raisi’s human rights record

By Jacob Magid and AFP

A makeshift shelter housing displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. (AFP)

Gazans say unmoved by death of Iranian president, who brought ‘only ruin’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People participate in a funeral procession alongside a truck carrying the coffins of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his seven aides in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, on May 21, 2024. (Ata Dadashi / Fars News Agency / AFP)

Iran begins days of mourning for president and others killed in helicopter crash

By Jon Gambrell

Unclear if Ebrahim Raisi’s processions will draw the millions who have attended previous such high-profile events; prosecutors warn against any celebration of hardliner’s demise

FILE: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Raisi’s death moves Khamenei’s son to top of running for supreme leader job

By Parisa Hafezi

People rally against Ebrahim Raisi, president of Iran, near the United Nations in New York City, on September 20, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Activists lament ‘impunity’ of Iran’s Raisi after crash death

By AFP

Police clash with protesters, make arrests after anti-government rally outside Knesset

By Charlie Summers

Thousands converge on capital for massive demonstration, followed by chaotic march stymied by skunk liquid sprayed from water cannons

The archaeological excavations in the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David. (Eliyahu Yannai, City of David)

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By Gavriel Fiske

A team of scholars recently used a new method to conquer the Hallstatt plateau, an abiding Iron Age puzzle, and help reveal the timeline of ancient Jerusalem. Here’s how they did it

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Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrives at the Knesset for a Likud faction meeting, Jerusalem on May 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

‘A colossal failure’: Likud MKs tear into Gallant during heated faction meeting

Former US president Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, May 20, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/ New York Post via AP, Pool)

Trump foreign policy advisers said to have met Netanyahu

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ariel Kandel stands and listens to a prospective immigrant speaking with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, wearing a tie, at an aliyah fair in Paris, France on May 19, 2024. (Qualita)

Russian immigration streams in as Israel predicts uptick in Western newcomers

By Canaan Lidor

Shas MK Moshe Arbel speaks at the Knesset, on May 27, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Interior minister pushes PM on five-year plan to aid Druze, Circassians – report

Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Trial turns testy as Trump lawyers try to pique fixer-turned-witness Cohen

By AFP and AP

Royce White, an NBA player turned right-wing podcaster, received the Minnesota GOP's endorsement for Senate on May 18, 2024. (Screenshot via X)

Royce White, podcaster who railed against Jews, wins Republican nod in Minnesota

By JTA

Syria's first lady Asma Assad, second left, listens to her husband Syrian President Bashar Assad as he speaks to the media after they voted at a polling station during the presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, on May 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syrian first lady Asma Assad diagnosed with aggressive form of blood cancer

By AP

Israeli cybersecurity firm CyberArk's headquarters and R&D center in Petah Tikva. (Courtesy)

Israel’s CyberArk inks deal to buy US cybersecurity firm for $1.54 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

Ivan F. Boesky, center, leaves federal court in New York, April 24, 1987, after pleading guilty to one count of violating federal securities laws. (AP Photo/ G. Paul Burnett, File)

ObituaryIvan Boesky, convicted in 1980s insider trading scandal, dies at 87

By AP

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